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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1939
Page
3
Cloudy, cooler conditions greet a city council meeting while Ward reports auto plant production will fall through August as 1939 model runs wrap up. Week production estimated at 61,610 vehicles, up from 42,782 holiday week. Governor James to make two statewide radio addresses.
Oil City hearing clears carnival manager Art Lewis and thirteen showgirls of indecency charges after evidence gaps. Alderman Homer Lane presided. John H. Glass cited for leasing grounds and also discharged for lack of proof. Defense witnesses included Lt. E G Potts and Capt. Josh W Duman.
United Press dispatch from Harrisburg notes Pennsylvania's 200 wardens perform a dozen duties from game feeding to office reports as part of an expanding wildlife conservation program. Field conservationists enforce regulations for more than a million hunters and fishermen and handle eight classifications including distribution, cover and feeding shelter construction, game food planting, farm game supervision, trapping, game rearing, and refuge maintenance, while also educating the public and coordinating with private agencies and processing permits.
Miss Dixie Starr a former Hoxie leading lady will appear in Corry next week at the Jack Hoxie Round Up with her horse Dido. The Oklahoma native, reared in the saddle, is featured in wild west stunts in the Hoxie show at the Washington Street grounds under local Veterans of Foreign Wars auspices. Grace Lunsford Belle Chapion and Lillie Alexander assist. Show opens Monday and runs all week.
Pennsylvania farmers across many counties are improving pasture land with lime and superphosphate under the 1939 program. Over six carloads have been delivered and more than 200 bags requested. deliveries continue as farmers respond. A small cash deposit covers handling charges with the rest deducted from earnings. Farmers should contact their county agricultural conservation office or a local community committeeman. Weather note: Prad Robinson of the Weather Bureau returned from an eight day vacation to Green Bay.
Babson urges readers to invest savings and mortgage homes with low interest while inflation risks loom. He counsels diversifying into NYSE stocks with strong dividends, no debt, and no natural resources, framing inflation protection and unemployment concerns as motivation.
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania will test regional supervision of special education in rural and mixed areas this month. Three regions Ligonier Blair Huntington Mifflin Evie Crawford Warren will pilot assistant county superintendents under local boards. State funds cover salaries and expenses. aims to address diverse exceptional children including mentally superior and impaired, blind, deaf, and crippled students.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced a statewide plan by apple growers to advertise apples. At a Hershey meeting growers from all districts agreed to fund the effort with voluntary one cent per bushel contributions. They noted apples as the only major fruit crop not seeing rising production soon and highlighted gypsies as healthful advertising material valued by doctors and dietitians.
The will of Union City merchant Mere Clark, who died July 9 at his home on 81 W His Street, leaves personal property valued at 10 450 and real estate worth 3 000. Executor named is son Rodney Clark of 81 W High Street. Wife Edna Clark receives 10 450 in personal property and the house at 8 Prospect Street and a stockade at Chautauqua Lake, with later transfers to Rodney and Elizabeth Shearer after her death.
Titusville July 5 a drowning at a pool near Ol tree plant left a 31 2 year old girl, Janelle Carol Faunce, daughter of Fred Faunce, missing since 5 pm. Dr. R K Frawley found the child had been dead an hour or more but an inhalator from Arnold funeral home was used for checks. No marks on the body and authorities reported possible drowning with an unclear cause.
Erie July 14 date set for the preliminary hearing of Fred Heskell, band maestro at the City club, on charges of aggravated assault and battery in a case involving Blaine Beard, a 14 year old singing protege. Alderman Lyle Grr moved the date from July 22 at attorney Joseph Agresti’s request as the investigation continues and Heskell denies the charges. Bond set at 900. Heskell’s engagements have been canceled pending outcome.
In Frontera, Tabasco, a local man Julian Carbonell claimed his wife had born five babies on Monday. The National Telegraph cited a flash announcing quintuplets, but later confirmed only one child was born and four were reportedly stillborn or not alive.
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