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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1943
Page
3
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A special City Council meeting was held last night at 8 to address complaints about barking dogs in the Shady Avenue area and other city incidents. Reports include a marriage application filed in Erle by Thomas and Walsh of Corry and Pearl Titus of Union City, plus county welfare and WPA transfers of farm tools.
Kane board of education approved plans for a full opening of public schools with seven teachers elected for the 1943 44 term. Contracts were issued to Sylvia Johnson Union City and Mary Qafiseh Union City both 8th grade plus Belle Miller Warren as 8th grade substitute Jean Mainwaring Bear Lake grade school Lawrence Kelfer Frackville commercial Kane High Helen Nearing Milford girls physical education instructor and Helen Handy Pronests to mathematics and science Kane High Miss Ethel Gregg named acting principal in Miller absence.
Theo P. Curry Williams was appointed Chairman of the Salvage Committee in Corry by Walter H. Scott of the Corry Defense Council. He succeeds Fran Loveland who left due to work at Aero Supply. Scott praised Loveland’s work and urged residents to join in future scrap drives for iron rubber and tin.
The Normandie, a French liner sunk and later raised, is being prepared for potential military use as a troop carrier. Workers race to finish a 400-foot observation platform by July 15 as officials monitor the salvage of the partially submerged hull.
Mr and Mrs John Wawrejko of R D Nave report their son Cpl Frank Wawrejko has arrived safely in San Francisco after active service in New Guinea and Guadalcanal. He contracted malaria twice and rested on an unnamed island during the voyage. He is one of four brothers in the service.
Jamestown reports the death of Sergeant James E. Lennartson, aged from local entry, in a Japanese camp at Mukden Manchukuo. The July 4 telegram from the Japanese government, via the International Red Cross, conveyed the news to his mother Elizabeth Lennartson at 23 Center Street. The War Department issued condolences, and Lennartson had served since June 8, 1942, with a lingering note on his SW Pacific campaigns and personal effects left behind.
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