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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1946
Page
6
July 3 officials learned a statewide legislative committee is drafting a complete set of laws governing detention in all counties. The changes will cover fire safety sanitation sex segregation for juveniles and shift county detention responsibility from commissioners to the courts. Counties will pause further improvements until year’s end once new rules take effect.
Spokesmen report tremendous stocks of slaughtered cattle en route to the East to relieve a meat famine in Quaker City. H Walter Graves, head of the Philadelphia rent estate committee, urges landlords to pause rent hikes as some owners raise rents up to 100 percent. In Harrisburg, the Justice Department cites a 1905 law requiring 30 days notice for any rent increase or lease change.
Many suffer aches and dizzy spells, now urged to try Thompson's Bor-soma Tablets to restore vitality. They claim to support kidney function and elimination of waste. Also recommended are Golden Lax Tablets for constipation and overall harmony with Bor-Soma at 50c to 50c.
State Sanitary Water Board opened an inquiry into massive fish die-off in the Allegheny near Warren. Investigators Bailey and Geer traced contamination to Eldred and Roulette from a cloudburst and flood that dumped acids from several industrial basins toward Warren, with trout bass and wall-eyed pike among the affected species. Citizens watched from Hickory Street Bridge as the dead fish floated downstream.
New York July 3 The Iron Age national metalworking paper says steel prices will stay unchanged in the immediate future though some steel products may rise later under OPA relief plans. Firms avoid sharp increases to dodge public censure and potential revival of price controls. Scrap dealers push old contracts while producers monitor tight supply. Strike closes two Cambria county mines in Johnstown Pennsylvania as 730 workers idle after electricians’ shift change sparks walkouts.
Hollywood reports a sudden settlement ending a brief violent movie strike. Rival union leaders and Byron Price of the Motion Picture Association of America reached a contract peace with a 25 percent general wage increase and a provision tying father pay hikes to rises in living costs.
Herbert J. Sorrell president of the AFL Conference of Studio Unions led a bid for a truce yesterday after noon following a strike. The four hour conference preceded the agreement that put workers back on the job today with Roy Brewer, local head of the International Employers, joining in.
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