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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1937
Page
8
Panic grips towns along the Mississippi as floodwaters rise and threaten to engulf settlements. Levees are dynamited to relieve pressure while Memphis is believed safe from inundation despite nearby danger. Local officials urge residents to seek higher ground and monitor updates.
Warren State Hospital, already housing 21 Erie city and county residents, will accept no more patients for the present. Judge William Byers and county commissioners were notified late Wednesday. Gov. George A. Gare and Welfare Secretary John W. Pennington signed the order, forcing the county to find another institution. The ban will stay until the current population drops to capacity. Officials plan to contact Pennington to see if other state facilities can take county residents. About 264 patients came to the hospital last year, 60 returning after paroles. remaining Erie inmates have long stays.
Corry Wewnsena Chuo vo 1 wil meeet Wastern Star hall in the Masonic Temple Monday evening at 7 30 o'clock. Development and progress of the movement both at national headquarters and among the clubs will be noted for information of the people. Cats and various other games be played at the close of the session.
Fire officials report an air-burning heater exploded at the home of Dr. F.G. Templeton at 407 Pennsylvania Avenue East in Warren. The blast damaged the living room, wallpaper, woodwork and windows, with furniture scorched and several hundred dollars in damage. Fire crews contained the flames before they spread to adjacent rooms.
A famed war correspondent, Sir Percival Phillips, born July 2 1877 in Brownsville Pennsylvania, reported from the Russo Japanese War to the Ethiopian crisis and the Rome revolution era. He worked for the Chicago Inter Ocean Daily Express, London Daily Mail, and London Daily Telegraph, being recognized by the British government in 1920 for his outstanding work. He died in China during the late 1920s.
Harrisburg January 29 A state plan to back a low cost housing and slum clearance program will be started this week at a Gov George H Earle called conference. The conference will include federal authorities and legislative leaders and may influence the outcome of the Philadelphia Supreme Court case on the state authority act of 1935. If upheld the authority could borrow federal money for a $64 million institutional building program and possibly extend to modular apartments in slum areas financed by federal and state funds. The current legislature weighs state housing authority bills granting eminent domain for condemnation.
Mrs. Fred H. Bannister, age 9, sustained severe burns when her clothing ignited while she slept in her home at 88 West Main Street North East. She was hospitalized in Hamet with burns to the body and head after neighbors removed embers and furniture. Dr. Simmonds treated her and she was transported by Wilson ambulance. Coal mine safety cited as twice as safe as staying at home by St Clairsville attorney V Waddell, based on accident rates.
In Washington Pennsylvania a condemned murderer Robert Dreamer, 40, will be executed in the electric chair at Rockview Penitentiary near Bellefonte, Pa. shortly after midnight next Monday. A plea for commutation citing mental illness was denied by the Harrisburg pardon board.
Pittsburgh rivers continue to fall after overnight light rain failed to halt flooding. At the point the stage was 20 feet five inches under flood level as colder weather is forecast with a slight chance of more light rain today.
A Junior Welfare League meeting announced a charity dance at the Masonic Hall Friday night February 5. Ted Brown and his orchestra from Erle will provide dancing music starting at 10 oclock. The Welfare League party committee invites attendees to support the league’s charity treasury.
Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation declared a regular 20 cent quarterly dividend payable March 15 to stockholders of record February 28. The payout totals 185,481 dollars on 927,205 shares outstanding.
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