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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1938
Page
8
Chautauqua in full stride as the 65th season begins with Georges Barrere conducting the Little Symphony. Lois Barnettman will be the guest pianist. The schedule includes lectures by Dr Edward C McCown and Dr Josephine Pierce, soprano Bernice Alaris, and appearances by Dr Clarence T Craig and soprano Josephine Antoine.
Johnstown school board directed letters to thirty married teachers urging resignations by August 1, claiming continuance as teachers harms the profession. The missive cites marriage as a dual responsibility and says patrons and pupils would favor schools if such conditions did not exist. The note references the 1937 tenure act mandating contract renewals unless improper conduct is shown.
Lectures at 10 48 and 9 00 o clock feature Tom Ireland speaking on modern Shakespeare at the Cleveland Play House. Friday July 22 marks Na tons WiC TU Day with Verdi opera Travi ata second offering. Ben Graham Pittsburgh schools chief to deliver American Youth. Dr Merton Rice Detroit Metropolitan M H Church address Public Enemy No 1. Noél Leslie to compare Yellow Jack with the stage version. soloists Harrison Potter and Bravans perform with the symphony. The Night of January 16th continues. Albert Stoessel conducts the children's concert. Stockdale speaks Your Stake in Industry.
Harrisburg July 15 Dr Lester K Ade superintendent of public instruction announced Miss Margaret L Witt 608 Franklin Street Johnstown Pa was chosen by the State Council of Education on June 3 1938 and approved by the Trust Committee in Lancaster as recipient of the Nathan C Schaeffer Memorial Scholarship for 1938 89 The award provides a year of graduate study.
Mystery surrounds the explosion aboard the Old City Sand and Gravel dredge on the Allegheny river near Oil City. Watchman Follisworth Chapman, 44, suffered burns to hands face and neck. condition improved to satisfactory in Oil City hospital. Initial reports blamed a boiler blast but investigators found the boiler intact. damage limited to torn deck plating at the bow area near the fuel oil storage tank.
July 15 Westfield workers from Wesfeld Planters Co operative Fruits struggle to lift a 3000 pound bottling machine. Mutch is pinned beneath it and rescued by Eugene Felton who lifts the load enough for others to pull him free. He suffers a broken pelvis several rib fractures and bruises and is hospitalized in Jamestown.
The deck forms the top of the oil storage tank and bulged several inches. A blast severely damaged the small company power launch moored at the dredge end, wrecking its cabin.
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