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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1952
Page
4
The Corry Journal published local news with Associated Press dispatches. Rates shown include by mail eight dollars per year and five dollars elsewhere, with carrier copies at four cents each and twenty four cents per week. Display ad deadlines are nine a.m. the day before publication.
News notes localized job shortages in Detroit New York and other industrial centers due to conversion to defense production and material shortages. New York predicts a quarter of national unemployed by July 1 with autos relief talks ongoing after a UAW conference. December 1951 unemployment 1,674,000, below 1950. A 1,140,000 unit auto quota for Q2 1952 preserved about 70,000 Detroit area jobs.
Rep. B. Carroll Reece asserts Taft will command a majority of southern and border state delegates at the 1952 Republican national convention. He estimates about 200 southern votes plus 800 overall could nominate. The 16 southern and border states would hold about 24 percent of delegates in 1952, down from 27 in 1948. Other notes mention islanders moving due to overcrowding and a Cook Inlet population figure.
Gurds are expected today for a registration of workers on the Pymatuning Dam project with City Clerk Porter to enroll all men seeking work as available. One Scarlet fever case under quarantine and another under observation. Birth announced: a son to Mr and Mrs Donald William of Springs Creek. Immanuel Guild elected officers for the year. E Club hosted at Miss Arline Haight's. bridge wins for Beatrice Daugherty and Charlotte Rowse. music enjoyed with a late supper.
A two-vehicle collision on Route 61 north of Pittsburgh killed Mrs. Sarah Redinger of Munhall yesterday. Her sister Mrs. Chass S. McGuire, 55, was seriously injured. McGuire's husband, 61, suffered a broken leg and head injuries in the crash.
A reader letter reports a crossing incident where a train eastbound arrived as gates failed. The writer alleges a guard accused him of drunkenness, claimed to be a cop, and used a coat collar grab as a city patrol car arrived. The piece ties the event to a Pennsylvania Railroad crossing accident and notes a Mrs Chesney involved.
Jamestown dispatch outlines two day public hearing by the Civil Aeronautics Board in the Cattaraugus county courthouse at Little Valley starting January 17 to probe the C 46 crash. Residents will testify while a Pittsburgh security hearing follows, examining the rein and the loss of crew and passengers.
Lawrence Banks of Erie pleaded guilty to four counts of obtaining money by false pretenses and one of larceny, and was sentenced to 21 to 5 years in Western Penitentiary by President Judge Elmer J. Evans. Two others also pled guilty before Judge Evans in county court. Banks, a long-time offender, admitted stealing an auto from Roberta Hennedy and cashing rubber checks totaling 92.43, using the same man on all. Charges note destinations including Hamel Hospital, Seymour's Jewelers, Stacy's Youth Center, and American Surplus Store. A drunken driver received a six month Erie county jail term, cut to four days, with probation and restitution. Kenneth Bush, 30, Erie, was fined 100 and placed on probation for the remainder of his term after striking two parked cars January 2. James Clifton Johnson, 20, Erie, a brass knuckle welder, was fined 0 and given 0 days after pleading guilty to assault and battery.
Investigators plan to hear from rescue workers who carried out the operation that saved 14 people, Cattaraugus County Sheriff Morgan L. Sizel who directed the rescue, State Police, and others who claim to have seen or heard the plane before the crash, including some survivors.
A fragmented quiz appears on a classified page asking about US Air Force bases in North Arion, a naval hero quote, Metropolitan Opera stage naming, Forrestal’s secretary role, nepotism and related topics, WWI troop stations, Pontiac, the plural of Madame, Mexico’s government form, and the syllable stress in telegraphist.
City Solicitor Anne Alpern will launch a campaign to halt Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania’s proposed 33 million gate increase. She was instructed by a unanimous council to take all steps, while awaiting a State Supreme Court decision on a 17.5 million increase approved by the Public Utility Commission in 1949. The new hike, if approved, would remove the weekend free call and raise residential rates by 50 cents monthly.
Postal employes threaten with prosecution for failing to pay city income tax since 1949. The city school board tax bureau will seek legal action to force payments from delinquents. Some claim exemption due to working on federal property, but a Philadelphia ruling supports municipal power to collect. The plea raises a $276,000 extra tax assessment for 1950 and 1951.
School Board Secretary Arthur Login notes the district has not made provisions for a 1952 settlement, calling it an unanticipated expense causing significant strain. The discussion references 640,000 in five eight days of 116 and 286,000 for non residents taxes for 860 and 1951 figures, highlighting entitlements to the district while outlining revenue and budgeting concerns. Additionally, the report mentions Africa’s largest airfield at Iytebbe Uganda with two mile long runways for jet operations in the context of broad infrastructure notes.
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