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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1963
Page
3
A terse OCR fragment mentions months and a bar number 27 connected to a person named Laurie and a Mrs RD. The readable text is insufficient for clear event details or full identities.
Democratic State Executive Committee sets tomorrow meeting to nominate candidates for two vacancies created by deaths in the General Assembly. Special elections are scheduled for February 19 with Otis B. Morte to nominate candidates for seats left open by Rep. Samuel B. Dennison and Sen. Samuel B. Wolfe.
Harrisburg report from Governor's Committee of 100 for Better Education calls for an $85 million statewide education funding rise for 1963-64. Proposed subsidies expansion, base raises to $6,800 by 1964-65, college aid boosts, teacher pay gains, and phased school district reorganization.
State officials ordered Titusville Schools to expand the high school with three regular classrooms and three science rooms to accommodate Pleasantville joint high students. Plans by architect W G Eckles foresee completion by September 1964 with cost estimates around 1 million dollars. Pleasantville district to join Titusville-Townville admin unit.
Eric Grocer, 75, fought two masked bandits at Bishop's Market in Erie. Albert Bishop resisted at the door and suffered a slight arm injury but says he was never afraid. The robbers fled as he defended the premises Saturday night.
A one story frame home fire in Pennsylvania killed Tammy Lynn Fleeger 18 months old. Harold and Mrs Fleeger and two other children James 4 and Kenneth 5 months escaped. Firemen said curtains touched off by an open flame caused the blaze damaging the home about 4000 dollars.
Gov Scranton proposed dividing the board into a council on higher education and a council on public education. He noted a similar recommendation in his legislative address. The Committee of 100, formed in 1962 by Gov David L. Lawrence, includes industry, citizen groups and education representatives.
The weather directly shapes business, employment, and consumer demand. Mild or harsh winters affect fuel, food budgets, and tourism while long storms can shut factories, delay shipments, and lower industrial output, leaving regional scars and jeopardizing farmers from grain to citrus.
The piece notes anxious merchants watching a mild storm threaten week sales, late spring could lift some lines, and weather before holidays closes shops. It argues severe winter weather imposes economic costs beyond physical damage, pushing business to rely on long range forecasts to plan production and sales.
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