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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1939
Page
8
Erie area May business rose 116 percent from May of 1638, led by factory payrolls and bank debits. Bank debits reached 29.221 million, up over four percent from two years earlier, with five month totals at 128.575 million. Building permits totaled 138.399 thousand, about 2.5 times May last year, and factory employment rose 17 percent year over year.
Pennsylvania motorists were advised by Secretary Hans ton Jr that the renewal deadline for 1939 auto tags is extended to April 1 1940. Advance operator permit date moved from March 1 to February 1 next year with half rate licenses on August 1 and quarter rates on November 1. Starting next year half rate licenses for October November December and quarter rates for those issued daytime January February and March. Toledo to have light opera at Walbridge Park Amphitheatre directed by Ralph Dunbar from New York with professional singers.
The Shreve Chair Company, a long standing Union City maker, will change hands to Yorke Foster Inc of Indianapolis for 29000 plus inventory up to 5000. The sale covers real estate, plant, machinery, and files. Attorneys Gifford and Plate represented the parties.
Kane borough begins a Poplar street storm sewer project linked to Telford type gutters on hill streets. The $173,000 plan will run about a year and employ roughly 180 workers, with fifty already at the west end near a small stream just past the borough line. Components include sewer and gutter work and funding reportedly delayed until fiscal year end.
Edward St Pierre, head of the local Y M C A club rooms on First Avenue, announced today that the rooms will be open from 7 to 10 o'clock each evening until further notice. They will be closed during the day.
A nearly century old pear tree in Huntington Indiana, one of the oldest in the region, was blown down in a storm. The tree stood about 40 feet high and nine feet in girth and had long borne fruit.
The department reminds motorists that the current two yearly inspection periods under the 1988 motor vehicle code run May to October and November to January. Vehicles passing inspection may operate until October, with a second sticker required for the following three months.
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