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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1945
Page
4
Local society items list residents visiting relatives in Port Washington Erie Jamestown and Pittsburgh plus service members returning from the Mediterranean theater and awaiting assignments Other entries note nurses students and relatives arriving home for visits and a Presbyterian Aid Society meeting with plans for a penny supper and a tureen dinner scheduled for February 9.
A birthday surprise party honored Mrs. Edmund Barr and Miss Edna Johnson at the Johnson home on W Church Street Friday. Fourteen friends attended a tureen dinner with individual cakes, and gifts were presented to Mrs Barr and Miss Johnson. The evening included sewing, visiting, and group singing.
The Amici Bible Class gathered yesterday evening at the Shawvers on North Center Street with sixteen attendees. John Williamson led devotions, Mrs. Lynn Campbell presided over the business meeting, and prizes went to Mrs. Hugh Mosher, Elbert E. Bush, John Williamson, and Rev. H. Ray Harris. Refreshments were provided by Mr. and Mrs. Shawver and Rev. G. T. Bergman. Plans were made to meet again February 9.
The American Legion Auxiliary met at the Legion home on North Center Street. President Mrs Frank Gragino led plans for a card party later this month to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign. Reports covered gifts sent to veterans hospitals. a social period followed with refreshments served by Mrs Neyton Mrs Roy Skinner and Mrs Gerald Skinner.
Erie January report shows salary raises granted December for two hospital staff were ruled illegal. Dr R B Anderson at Erie County Tuberculosis Hospital got a 1000 annual boost, lifting pay from 5700 to 6700 on board trustees’ recommendation. Board blocked blanket increases for all hospital employees, instead approving individual raises for five workers.
Pittsburgh January 13 19 year old Peter B Revty received a 10 to 20 year sentence for taking part in a North Versailles service station robbery. He will begin this term after completing a 9.5 to 19 year sentence already imposed in Bedford County for shooting a state policeman last October.
A blast from gas fumes in an electric bake oven at Electric Motor Service Co on Crescent street caused a fire that gutted the east section of a one story frame building. Damage tops $5000. Fire Chief Swanson said fumes ignited by the oven heating element, with a motor inside for treatment, creating pressure and an explosive release when contacting heater wires. Two 26 inch lines and two booster stations were needed to fight the blaze in 15 degree weather.
Erie January 13 Frank Burke serving eight to sixteen years at Western Penitentiary for robbery larceny of an auto and prison escape has applied for parole to be heard by the state pardon board January 30. District Attorney Burton R Laub was notified Burke in prison since August 18 1936 originally sentenced to two years four months but later transferred to prison farm at Rockview Pa received additional time for escaping and theft of an auto while out Laub will decide later whether to oppose parole.
Introduces a son Robert Nelson Brockmann six pounds and He ounces born to Mr and Mrs Willard Brockmann of San Bruno California with Henry Brockmann grandfather. Also notes a daughter born to Myland and Mrs Warren McChesney at Corry Hospital last evening with Mrs McChesney formerly Mary Molux.
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