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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1951
Page
3
A fragmented OCR item notes a purchase or price related to music and fabric items including batiste and ruffles. Mentions a husband and teaching context in unclear wording. No clear event or names beyond general references.
Property exchanges recorded include transfers from Paul Wiggers to Alphania A Sawyer Fourth ward Merley Doddux to Bruno B Spit man ux Third ward John Fre noux to Keith T Henton ux Second ward John W Hitchcock at to Frank S Blissul Second ward A W Harmon ax to Walter W Winduhl wx Wayne township Fred J Healy ax to Pennsylvania Gas Company Second ward A Spartansburg Fair Association to meet next Tuesday in the high school at 8 o'clock All planning participants urged to attend.
Investigators support theory that an exploding rifle in the plane luggage compartment caused a crash that killed three Pittsburgh sportsmen. Eye witness reports describe an explosion tearing the fuselage moments before the plane hit a hayfield near the community 25 miles south of Hamilton. Victims: William Stelts 42 pilot and owner, Dr. William Marshall 54, Richard Boyles 48, bound from Pittsburgh to Toronto on a fishing trip in northern Ontario.
Massachusetts Supreme Court rules Tax Commissioner Henry Long cannot collect state taxes on Annie May Hegeman a Pittsburgh Lenox resident at death She left a 2 million dollar estate with 27 thousand dollar summer home and 26 thousand in personal property The court found domicile in Pittsburgh never taxed by Massachusetts and noted she did not buy Lenox home until age 75 and paid no Massachusetts income tax
President Truman backed a move to appropriate 15 million dollars for emergency relief in the flooded Red River valley after conferring with House leaders Rayburn and Cannon. The White House said Thurman asked Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to survey needs and provide food loans to farmers. Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick was sent to assess the disaster and additional funds may be requested if surveys justify it.
Floods slam eastern and central Kansas with Topeka hit hardest as 20 tanks incinerate in a fuel yard. Nine firemen injured, seven buildings destroyed, two damaged. Over 20,000 Topeka residents homeless as the Kansas River breaches bridges and rail lines sever connections.
Harrisburg reports only 19 servicemen requested absentee ballots under a 1951 law for the July 24 primary. Requests arrive as post cards and may swell the total to about 219 after processing by home counties. The bureau called the demand comparatively light with WWII peaks far higher.
The revised code tightens purchasing rules with a four member consent to vote on certain items and bids required for purchases over 750. It bans piecemeal buying to evade advertising laws, requires city property sales to be advertised, and aims to ensure lower prices through broader merchant participation. The article notes the palm and palm kernel oil industry centers in equatorial Africa.
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